Dawesome21
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I have two questions.
1. How does everyone solve their own problems of finger chafe when slinging?
2. How do you think ancient slingers solved the problem of finger-loop chafe, and how would this solution be different from the modern-day?
A sling by nature has a finger retention loop. And as I throw with the sling, it is rotating around and chafing my finger inside the loop. It can even chafe the fingers next to it. I thought I would solve this problem by adding a second finger loop, so using my middle and ring fingers to retain the sling, and not just my middle finger. But this has only reduced the problem and not solved it. After a couple of hundred shots, I still tear the skin on the base of my fingers. I have resorted to using heavy-duty band-aids around the base of each finger. This, with the double-finger loop, has sufficiently solved the problem for me. But I am wondering, how do other slingers attack this issue? And more importantly, how did ancient professional slingers attack this issue? If a sling has this problem by nature, then ancient slingers must have had their own solution, which is probably better than my solution since they were professionals. Plus, all of the re-enactors, modern Balearic slingers, and ancient sling finds that I know of only have one finger loop. I don't think I see anyone in Spain today using band-aids around their fingers, and they usually have just one finger loop. How do they avoid tearing their skin off? What am I missing here? Do we have any evidence for how this problem was addressed in history?
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